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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1891
Page
3
The report surveys rising college enrollments in the United States, legal shifts on grain futures in Minnesota, and rising European dueling trends. It notes engineer Guilliam's transit ideas, forest loss in Mali, Basel health regulations, and a French census drift toward English-speaking regions. It highlights Mormon missionary transport, looming famine fears in Russia, and warnings on education, milk safety, and athletic training.
Poem excerpt describing a delays and a blooming rose by a fair and graceful tree. The speaker notes a morning meeting as a beloved kisses goodbye. The narrator laments future fortune and the missed chance to share time.
In Medway, Uncle Eben denies Florry Gaines a marriage to Allen Webster due to horse racing stigma. An accident at the race track brings Allen to tend him, shifting Eben's views as he witnesses Allen's steadiness and Florence's steadfast affection. Eben admits possible prejudice and ends with cautious acceptance, while Allen solidifies his suit.
The Yuma Sentinel reports at the mouth of the Colorado River and upper Gulf of California immense sea life including base weighing 250 to 750 pounds, sardines and smelt in millions, delicious oysters, countless soft shelled crabs, and vast flocks of wild geese ducks and other birds.
A Philadelphia Times report profiles Charles J. Cummings a West Philadelphia grocer with bizarre food tasts mixing common dishes in strange ways. He recalls a perverse desire since childhood and claims his youngest daughter shares the hereditary trait via inherited taste. his family scenes and the peculiar meals are described with cautious curiosity.
Panama hats are named for Panama port shipments, made in Ecuador and neighboring states from screw pine leaf fibre. Leaves two feet long, fan shaped, four parted. each hat is a single piece. Production is slow. coarse hats take days, fine ones months. About two hundred thousand dozen hats yearly. prices range from 5 to 100 dollars.
A New York Sun item notes a humorous line about marriage on a theoretical level between Ethel and George. The piece then shifts to mention a Kane pumpkin weighing 10 pounds, suggesting a light, quippy newspaper snippet.
A collage of curious facts and trivial items from Beal selling at Vancouver to panglossian quips on discipline at Annapolis and oddities of plants, insects, and people. Notable notes include a Camden boy jailed for gravestone art, Liberty Bell relics, and humorous exchanges about marriage and bets.
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